Firefighter Craftsmanship Podcast

This week’s Firefighter Craftsmanship podcast is an honest conversation directed at you supervisors specifically (but we think there’s lots of value for all ranks!) We wrap up our series addressing the recent Fire Rescue1 survey in this episode and talk about How Your Stress is Affecting Those Around You. Check it out here! In this episode we cover: The data points around supervisor stress and yes...

This weeks podcast features Chief Mike West who is doing some leading edge things with his department, Front Range Fire Rescue, especially in empowering his people to be resilient and ready. In this episode we cover: How to empower your firefighters to be mentally tough and mentally well How to develop happy and healthy firefighters and Chief officers The benefits of a 1900 start time for the 48/9...

This week we talk about what Firefighters wanted in 2023 based on the survey conducted by Fire Rescue 1 of almost 2200 firefighters. In this episode we cover: The data from almost 2200 firefighters and the alarming trends that we can derive from these numbers How we can impact ourselves and our crew in a positive way Stress and how it is negatively impacting us in the fire service Some solutions f...

This week we talk about your athletic identity and some steps on how to build a healthy one. Check it out here! ​ In this episode we cover: What is athletic identity and why does it matter for you as an emergency responder/tactical athlete? How do you develop healthy one? What sort of impact do others have on your athletic identity? Why does this matter in the overall scheme of things? You can lis...

This week's podcast is up and it's chock full of great tips and strategies to help you go out and crush it. This week we talk about how to build resilience BEFORE you need it on an emergency call. Check it out here! ​ In this episode we cover: What is resilience? How do we develop individual resilience before we need to tap into it How do we build resilient teams and how does leadership play into...

This weeks podcast is up and it's chock full of great tips and strategies to help you go out and crush it. This week features Lt. Taylor Montey who also happens to be a licensed counselor, fitness coach, mom and wife and she brings some serious knowledge to this conversation. Check it out here! ​ In this episode we cover: What the heck is Allostatic Load and why should you care? The masks that we...

Tips and strategies to help you deal with the stressors of the job as a first responder and off-duty. In Episode 1 of the Firefighter Craftsmanship Podcast we talk about ultimate human performance, how this applies to firefighters and first responders and dive into the concept of the Window of Tolerance. In this episode you'll hear: What the point of the Firefighter Craftsmanship Podcast is Physio...